# privacy · Angel Step > What Angel Step reads, where it stays, and how to take it back. Short, because there is little to say. Canonical: https://angelstep.app/privacy Language: en Updated: 2026-09-30 Whole site in one file: https://angelstep.app/llms-full.txt This file is the markdown twin of the page at the canonical address above: the same words, without markup. Cite the canonical address, not this file. --- Last updated: 30 September 2026 Angel Step counts your steps and shows you a sky. It has no accounts, no ads, and no analytics about your walking. Almost everything it knows never leaves your iPhone — this page says exactly what the exceptions are. ### What stays on your phone With your permission, Angel Step reads one kind of data from Apple Health: your step count — the number you see, so it matches the count your iPhone and Apple Watch already keep. The calories and distance in the quiet line under the number are worked out on your phone from those steps — that is what the ~ in front of them means. Angel Step doesn't ask for permission to read them. If Health already lets it read walking + running distance or active energy, it shows those measured figures instead, without the ~. Angel Step only reads this data. It never writes anything into Apple Health, and it never asks for permission to. It also uses Motion & Fitness (your iPhone's motion sensor). While the app is open, that lets the number move as you walk, instead of waiting for Health to catch up. When Apple Health can't be read — as while your iPhone is locked — the widget and the app take the step count from the motion sensor instead. The app also uses it to measure the distance of your first walk. The readings themselves stay on your phone; the one thing derived from them that can leave it is the moment your first walk was done, and only if you accepted an invite — see below. Your days, your streak, your goal, and the things you collect are stored on your device, in the app's own storage and in a shared container that lets the widget show the same number as the app. None of it is uploaded to us. We never use your health or fitness data for advertising, marketing, or profiling. We don't sell it or mine it, and none of it goes to RevenueCat, the purchase service described below. The only thing that ever reaches another person is described under invites. ### What leaves your phone — a purchase check Angel Step offers an optional upgrade: by the month, by the year, or once. The purchase is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card, your billing address, or your Apple Account. To know whether this iPhone has bought it, the app asks RevenueCat, a company that keeps purchase records for apps. That happens whether or not you ever buy anything: whenever Angel Step starts — including when iOS wakes it in the background to update your steps — and when you buy or restore. RevenueCat files its record under a random ID the app creates the first time it opens, and it receives: - if you buy — Angel Step's App Store receipt: what was bought, when, and when it renews or ends; - your App Store country, or where your internet connection is; - the type of device, its iOS version, the version of Angel Step, your language settings, and when the app last checked in; - an identifier iOS gives apps from the same developer on this iPhone (the identifier for vendor — not the advertising identifier); - a few technical details about the app itself, such as whether it is a test build. No steps, no Health data, no name, no email, no advertising identifier. We use these records for two things: to unlock what you bought, and to see totals — how many people buy, and which option they choose. That second use is why Angel Step's privacy label on the App Store lists purchase history under analytics. ### What leaves your phone — invites If a friend invites you to walk and you accept, the app writes a small record to Apple's iCloud, in a database that belongs to Angel Step. That record contains exactly four things: - the invite code of the person who invited you; - a random token generated for your phone; - when the invite was accepted — replaced by the time of your first walk once it happens; - the time your first walk was done, once it is: when the app saw it pass 111 meters, counted by your iPhone's motion sensor. That is the whole record. No steps, no distance, no name, no email, no location, no device identifier. iCloud also attaches its own ID for your iCloud account in Angel Step's database, as it does to every record; it doesn't tell us who you are, and we don't use it. The record lets the person who invited you see that someone is on the way, and then that you took your first walk, so the sky they were promised can arrive. If you never accept an invite, nothing is ever written. Separately, from time to time the app asks iCloud whether anyone has arrived with your invite code; that question carries only your code, and saves nothing. ### What we do not do - No analytics about your walking, no tracking pixels, no advertising SDKs, no attribution networks. - No accounts, no sign-up, no email list, no password. - No cookies of our own — not in the app, and not on this website. - No outside services except Apple's own (Health, iCloud, the App Store) and RevenueCat, for purchases. RevenueCat — with the hosting companies it relies on — is the only company besides Apple that receives anything from the app, and it gives those records the protection this page promises. It handles them for us under a data processing agreement: on our instructions, kept secure, and never sold or shared for advertising across apps. It may also use them to run and improve its own service, and publish statistics in a form that identifies no one. We can delete any record it keeps, at any time. Its own policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy. If another service is ever added, this page changes first. This website is served through Cloudflare, which handles each visit — your IP address, and the invite code in an invite link — to deliver the page. We run no analytics on it. Links from this website to the App Store carry a campaign label in the address, such as ct=site-docs. The label names the part of this website the link sits on, not you: App Store Connect then shows us how many downloads came from each label, as totals only. The website loads nothing from Apple and sets nothing on your device to do this. On the way, the link passes through angelstep.app/get/…, which looks only at the country your connection comes from, so that it opens the App Store of your country when that store is in the language of the page, and the store of the page's language otherwise. Nothing about the visit is stored. ### How long it is kept Everything on your device lives there until you delete it. Deleting Angel Step deletes all of it — your history, your collection, your settings — and there is no copy anywhere else, apart from your iPhone's own backups. Deleting the app doesn't reach the records that already left your phone. Invite records have no automatic expiry yet: they stay until we remove them, and we remove yours on request. RevenueCat keeps its records for as long as Angel Step uses it, until we delete them. Revoking Apple Health access in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health stops all reading immediately; the app keeps working, with less to show. Turning Angel Step off in Settings → Privacy & Security → Motion & Fitness stops the motion sensor readings. ### Your choices - Take permission back at any time in the Health app or in iOS Settings. - Delete everything on your iPhone by deleting the app. - Ask us to delete an invite record, or ask what is stored about your invites, by writing to the address below with the invite link you accepted and roughly when — that is how we find it. We'll answer, and do it. - Ask us to delete your purchase record at RevenueCat by writing to the same address with the Order ID from Apple's receipt email (you can also find it in Purchase History in the App Store). Your purchase itself stays with Apple, and opening the app again starts a new record. If you have never bought anything, the record holds no purchase, only the details listed above, and there is nothing we can look it up by — so we have no way to single out yours to delete. ### Children Angel Step is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. ### Changes If what the app does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. We don't quietly extend what we collect. ### Who we are Angel Step is made by an independent developer, not a company. You can reach a human at hello@angelstep.app. Updated 30 September 2026